tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post5883656008012054462..comments2024-03-16T04:40:25.964-07:00Comments on LA Animal Watch: More on Jimmy, the City, and Jones vs. the City of Los AngelesEd Muzikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-26209618908347855612009-06-24T16:32:05.509-07:002009-06-24T16:32:05.509-07:00Remember a lady who was living in her car and had ...Remember a lady who was living in her car and had about 100 dogs on the empty lot where she was living? She was on the news about a year ago.<br /><br />The media exposed her living conditions and the fact that she was caring for 100 dogs on the empty lot. Rescuers went out to s/n the dogs and the public gave her donations. The woman got something like $30,000 or a $30,000 trailer from the media exposure. I can't remember which was which, but she ended up w/ a trailer she could live in. <br /><br />Maybe the same media people can help Jimmy. <br /><br />On the otherhand, there was a homeless man living on the corner of Melrose and Heliotrope (close to Los Angeles City College).<br /><br />There were a lot of people who loved that man and used to help him out, and then one day, a couple of thugs stopped on Melrose, got out of the car, and doused the poor defenseless man with gasoline and set him on fire. I think the homeless man's name was Steve, but I don't remember. That poor man died a horrific death. <br /><br />Maybe too much public exposure about Jimmy's cats and his living situation isn't such a good idea. There are a lot of conservatives out there who already despise and blame low-income and homeless people for the way they live, and a lot more who would love to make trouble for the defenseless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-91523795903405833892009-06-24T12:01:42.267-07:002009-06-24T12:01:42.267-07:00Jim Dellinger is the kind of asshole you want goin...Jim Dellinger is the kind of asshole you want going after people you don't want hanging on your back. A "sit down" is exactly his cup of tea.<br /><br />Dellinger sticks up for idiots who pose as Animal Control officers, but you can be sure he will go after people who don't like cats hanging around their properties. <br /><br /> That "sit down" between Dellinger and the city attorney you are talking about should go well if Dellinger sticks to his "guns," and you can be sure he will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-12370333751310978822009-06-24T11:59:40.177-07:002009-06-24T11:59:40.177-07:00Anonymous #1:
You misuse and misunderstand Elliot...Anonymous #1:<br /><br />You misuse and misunderstand Elliot's Wasteland. <br /><br />As Mr. Muzika states in a few words, we create a universe of meaninglessness when we can easily turn the other cheek and watch people and animals suffer while doing nothing to help them obtain their basic needs. <br /><br />Elliot is talking about the living hell that we carry in our soul when we turn our backs on the kind of human and animal suffering we see on the streets every day of our lives and do nothing about it. <br /><br />Muzika can't help the homeless 88,000 people, their children and their pets, but he is helping one man and his four rescues. That is more than kindness. It's called basic human compassion, and integrity. There is where the Kingdom of God resides, not where you or I do nothing for this man or people like him. <br /><br />When Elliot wrote the Wasteland he was not a Christian yet, however, he had to go into the depths of hell before he found heaven. I think Elliot would agree with Mr. Muzika's action. <br /><br />You on the otherhand, can go ahead with your life and keep turning your back on suffering, feeling content living in your own Wasteland.Aunt Marthanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-41510695352170278762009-06-24T11:38:02.020-07:002009-06-24T11:38:02.020-07:00This is my most favorite post! Wonderful work!!!!...This is my most favorite post! Wonderful work!!!!!!!!<br /><br />Thank You for providing this information and for fighting for that homeless man and his cats!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-43229522658027315842009-06-24T11:26:08.156-07:002009-06-24T11:26:08.156-07:00Maybe you consider the life of one homeless man an...Maybe you consider the life of one homeless man and 4 cats unimportant, I don't.<br /><br />There is also the larger issue of homelessness, Jones vs. LA, homeless and feral cats and human caring. If anything, these are larger issues than who is the current head of Animal Services.Ed Muzikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-67969805296482001572009-06-24T02:44:22.639-07:002009-06-24T02:44:22.639-07:00Now that Boks resigned, your big issue is... a hom...Now that Boks resigned, your big issue is... a homeless guy with four cats?<br /><br />Is that it? <br />You have nothing else?<br />At the end of your journey, you are nowhere.<br /><br /><br />We are the hollow men<br />We are the stuffed men<br />Leaning together<br />Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!<br />Our dried voices, when<br />We whisper together<br />Are quiet and meaningless<br />As wind in dry grass<br />Or rats' feet over broken glass<br />In our dry cellar<br /><br />Shape without form, shade without colour,<br />Paralysed force, gesture without motion;<br /><br />Those who have crossed<br />With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom<br />Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost<br />Violent souls, but only<br />As the hollow men<br />The stuffed men.<br /><br /><br />II<br /><br /><br />Eyes I dare not meet in dreams<br />In death's dream kingdom<br />These do not appear:<br />There, the eyes are<br />Sunlight on a broken column<br />There, is a tree swinging<br />And voices are<br />In the wind's singing<br />More distant and more solemn<br />Than a fading star.<br /><br />Let me be no nearer<br />In death's dream kingdom<br />Let me also wear<br />Such deliberate disguises<br />Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves<br />In a field<br />Behaving as the wind behaves<br />No nearer --<br /><br />Not that final meeting<br />In the twilight kingdom<br /><br /><br />III<br /><br /><br />This is the dead land<br />This is cactus land<br />Here the stone images<br />Are raised, here they receive<br />The supplication of a dead man's hand<br />Under the twinkle of a fading star.<br /><br />Is it like this<br />In death's other kingdom<br />Waking alone<br />At the hour when we are<br />Trembling with tenderness<br />Lips that would kiss<br />Form prayers to broken stone.<br /><br /><br />IV<br /><br /><br />The eyes are not here<br />There are no eyes here<br />In this valley of dying stars<br />In this hollow valley<br />This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms<br /><br />In this last of meeting places<br />We grope together<br />And avoid speech<br />Gathered on this beach of the tumid river<br /><br />Sightless, unless<br />The eyes reappear<br />As the perpetual star<br />Multifoliate rose<br />Of death's twilight kingdom<br />The hope only<br />Of empty men.<br /><br /><br />V<br /><br /><br />Here we go round the prickly pear<br />Prickly pear prickly pear<br />Here we go round the prickly pear<br />At five o'clock in the morning.<br /><br />Between the idea<br />And the reality<br />Between the motion<br />And the act<br />Falls the Shadow<br /><br />For Thine is the Kingdom<br /><br />Between the conception<br />And the creation<br />Between the emotion<br />And the response<br />Falls the Shadow<br /><br /><br />Life is very long<br /><br />Between the desire<br />And the spasm<br />Between the potency<br />And the existence<br />Between the essence<br />And the descent<br />Falls the Shadow<br /><br />For Thine is the Kingdom<br /><br /><br />For Thine is<br />Life is<br />For Thine is the<br /><br />This is the way the world ends<br />This is the way the world ends<br />This is the way the world ends<br />Not with a bang but a whimper.<br /><br />-- T.S. 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